Wind Energy & the Environment
Wind energy works, is increasingly cost-effective, has a net positive environmental impact, and is compatible with most existing land uses. The links below touch on the topic of wind’s environmental benefits and impacts.
Wind energy company pleads guilty to killing at least 150 eagles
By
Maya Yang
Turbine blades owned by ESI Energy hacked many birds to death, a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
Call for warning systems after third sea eagle killed by wind turbine
By
Paul Gipe
Another sea eagle which had been fitted with a GPS tracking device as part of a monitoring programme has died after being hit by the blade of a wind turbine in Flevoland, nature journal Nature Today reports. Read more at DutchNews.nl:
The wind farm where turbines shut down 400 times a day when eagles approach
By
Sophie Vorrath
So far, the technology has proven highly successful in protecting the local population of “Wedgies,” with just one mortality due to a turbine collision identified during the initial commissioning of the IdentiFlight system.
Dogs Sniff Out Answers to Bat and Bird Fatalities Near Wind Turbines
By
David Kindy
Aided by canines, researchers found larger models do not necessarily pose a greater threat to wildlife
The paradox of the California condor
By
Jane Braxton Little
To detect and minimize conflict between wildlife and wind generation, they have installed artificial intelligence devices. In 2018 they erected a geofence, which tracks GPS-tagged condors entering the wind farm area and shuts down the turbines.
Cultural Icons of Wind Turbines—A List that Never Stops Growing
By
Paul Gipe
I just added chocolate as a category of subjects that celebrate wind turbines or traditional windmills. Yes, chocolate. I thought “home decor” would be the last category on the topic. I never expected to be writing about table runners or wall paper that featured wind turbines. But the list of categories just won’t stop growing.
